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NAMIBIAN judges may no longer impose extremely long jail terms that leave a prisoner worse off than under a conventional life sentence. The country’s top court has found it unconstitutional to hand down “informal life sentences”, via jail terms that are so long that offenders have no possible hope of ever being released before they die.

JUDGES of Uganda’s constitutional court have come to the rescue of two judicial colleagues, finding that the statutory five-year limited term of office of the industrial court bench undermined judicial independence and was unconstitutional and therefore invalid.

The Chair in Customary Law at the University of Cape Town compiled this bibliography of Customary Law sources - secondary materials as well as case law. The Bibliography currently encompasses primarily South African material, but our intention is to grow its regional scope.

The Chair in Customary Law at the University of Cape Town is currently Prof. Chuma Himonga.